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St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church in İzmir, is a key church for the ethnic Christian Turkish community. There is an ethnic Turkish Protestant Christian community in Turkey numbering around ~10,000, [158] [123] mostly adherents, and most of them coming from a Muslim Turkish background.
Moreover, there is an ethnic Turkish Protestant Christian community in Turkey which number about 7,000–8,000 adherents; [42] [41] most of these Christian converts are from Turkish–Muslim background. [103] [104] [105] In 2003, the mainstream Turkish newspaper Milliyet reported that 35,000 Turkish former Muslims had converted to Christianity ...
The authors found "7.9% (±0.4) East Asian ancestry in Turks from admixture occurring 800 (±170) years ago." [14] According to a 2012 study of ethnic Turks, "Turkish population has a close genetic similarity to Middle Eastern and European populations and some degree of similarity to South Asian and Central Asian populations."
A 2022 study, which looked at modern-day populations and more than 700 ancient genomes from Southern Europe and West Asia covering a period of 11,000 years, found that Turkish people carry the genetic legacy of "both ancient people who lived in Anatolia for thousands of years covered by our study and people coming from Central Asia bearing ...
People of Turkish nationality who are of the Christian faith. ... Turkish Christian religious leaders (1 C, ... Pages in category "Turkish Christians"
Some 170 million people have a Turkic language as their native language; [103] an additional 20 million people speak a Turkic language as a second language. The Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers is Turkish proper , or Anatolian Turkish, the speakers of which account for about 40% of all Turkic speakers. [ 104 ]
Many Greek Orthodox people living in Istanbul and the Islands were at various times arbitrarily stripped of their Turkish citizenship. Finally, a 1971 law significantly limiting the operation of private universities led to the closure of the Halki Seminary, the main theological school of the Orthodox community. Despite a 40-year campaign to ...
The master architect of the classical period, Mimar Sinan, served as the chief court architect (mimarbaşi) for some 50 years from 1538 until his death in 1588. [63] Sinan credited himself with the design of over 300 buildings, [ 64 ] though another estimate of his works puts it at nearly 500. [ 65 ]